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Apple II Email and Usenet News Suite

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Subscribing to a Newsgroup

This section outlines the steps for subscribing to a newsgroup.

For example, suppose you want to subscribe to newsgroup comp.sys.pdp11.

1. The first step is to add a new line to NEWSGROUPS.CFG for the newgroup subscription. NEWSGROUPS.CFG is found in the email root directory (/H1/DOCUMENTS/EMAIL using the example settings.) Start EDIT.SYSTEM and use the Open Apple-O command to open the file /H1/DOCUMENTS/EMAIL/NEWSGROUPS.CFG.
2. Using EDIT.SYSTEM add a line to the file consisting of the newsgroup name, a space, the name of the mailbox you want to use to store messages, another space and the digit 0. For example, we may decide to use mailbox name A.S.PDP11 for this newsgroup:

alt.sys.pdp11 A.S.PDP11 0

3. Save the file with Open Apple-S and quit EDIT.SYSTEM with Open Apple-Q.
4. Run EMAIL.SYSTEM and use the N (new mailbox) command to create the mailbox your chose in step 2 above (ASP11 in this case.)
5. Use the Closed Apple-R command to run NNTP65.SYSTEM and retreive messages from the newly-subscribed newsgroup.

When the 'last message' field of the newgroup is zero, NNTP65.SYSTEM will download the most recent 100 articles from the newsgroup. It will then set the most recent article counter in NEWSGROUPS.CFG so that subsequent runs will retrieve new messages only.

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